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Democrats, Biden look to accelerate Southern political shift

by Associated Press
| July 6, 2020 12:06 AM

ATLANTA (AP) — From Mississippi retiring its state flag to local governments removing Confederate statues from public spaces, a bipartisan push across the South is chipping away at reminders of the Civil War and Jim Crow segregation.

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